by Country Girl 12 Replies latest jw friends
People celebrate their birthdays, if they fall on a wednesday, on a Friday. The night that everyone is off of work and has time to have a party, have fun, and celebrate. They don't celebrate it on the exact date, but close enough that everyone knows. That's what I'm thinkin about God. He wasn't EXACTLY born on this day, but what we're celebrating is his birth. I like birthdays....
CG
...and so what if it's really a PAGAN god's birth we're celebrating! We'll just pretend it's Jesus' birth. Yeah, that's it.
B.
...and so what if it's really a PAGAN god's birth we're celebrating! We'll just pretend it's Jesus' birth. Yeah, that's it.
I've never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed, but in the words of Rickey Ricardo, you need to splain that one. Are there rules written somewhere that a birthday must be celebrated on the exact date of a persons birth? If it is the Pagan angle that's bad, well almost everything around us has ties to pagans, including the calander, wedding rings and a Mercury automobile. Merry Christmas Bug
As a pagan, I don't see anything at all wrong with Christians choosing to celebrate the birth of Jesus at this time of year. Some Christians think that back in the old days the Christians did a good job in turning the pagans into Christians and that this was a good way of cleansing them with Jesus blood.
So whats the problem?
Sirona
Country Girl said it best.
I agree with Sirona and Country Girl........ At this point, most people have no idea that paganism had a thing to do with the now-christian holidays.
God was born?
carm
When we study the meaning of ancient celebrations at the winter solstice we should experience a terrific feeling of involvement and sharing. Personally I see every religious observation as changing and evoloving over the eons. Christianity today resembles none of it;s previous incarnations. Sharing at this time of year and causing light in darkness is poetic. Jesus (or any other diety who claims this birthday) or rather whose followers claim this day are just looking for the best time to mix the Christian and pagan ideas. Sure we may know that things religious are never quite what we're told that they are, but who can deny that the meaning which is conveyed will benefit almost everyone.
I didn't say it was "wrong." It's just illogical.
B.
Logan,
I might be completely missing your point, but your words totally lose me:
and so what if it's really a PAGAN god's birth we're celebrating! We'll just pretend it's Jesus' birth. Yeah, that's it.
Are you saying Jesus birthday is being celebrated on the same day as a pagan god? If that's your logic, then is it wrong for me to celebrate MY birthday on a day that happens to belong to someone else? I don't understand what you're saying.
Andi
